It’s times like these that I’m glad I’m from Missouri. No, not the “show me” saying thing. It’s just that when compared to other places and other people, dare I say it, we appear to be so much more sane.

For example, Sarah Palin, Governor of Alaska, darling of the wingnut right, and vice presidential pick of McSame:

…COMPLAINT AGAINST SELF

Tom Daniel, an Anchorage labor and employment lawyer hired by the board in the Renkes case, took a quick look at Palin’s complaint Tuesday.

“It appears that the Governor has filed an ethics complaint against herself. … This is very unusual because ethics complaints typically are filed against others,” Daniel wrote in an e-mail responding to a Daily News query.

Asked whether the personnel board could take the investigation away from the Legislature — as Palin wants to do — Daniel answered: “I’ve never looked at that issue, but I can’t see why filing a complaint with the personnel board would deprive the Legislature of the right to conduct its own investigation…”

Yes, that’s right, Sarah Palin has filed an ethics complaint against herself. Don’t be so quick to applaud her altruism. She also claims that this complaint trumps the current investigation by the state legislature. A ha.

When I was a kid we used to run this gag all the time: “I confess, [long pause] he did it.”

Then there’s the definition of chutzpah: murdering your parents and then asking for leniency from the court because you’re an orphan.

At least our republican governor….oh wait…  

I don’t know whether there’s a secret handbook Republicans follow that instructs them to act as if it’s illegal for them to answer questions when they’re on the hot seat or whether it’s the innate response of liars, but if there’s a manual, both Bushco and Bluntco have been doing their homework.

Blunt, fearful that Scott Eckersley was about to talk to the press, smeared Eckersley and then, when Eckersley protested his innocence by revealing the real reason he’d been fired–that he didn’t go along with Blunt’s illegal practice of deleting state e-mails–the governor’s office filed an ethics complaint with the Missouri Bar against Eckersley for a “breach of confidentiality.”

The trouble is that the boxes of Eckersley’s e-mails that Blunt’s office sent to two newspapers as part of the smear included e-mails between Eckersley and his attorney, Steve Garner.  Their presence in the boxes revealed that someone in the governor’s office had broken into Eckersley’s private e-mail account.  That’s illegal.

Now that Garner is responding to the ethics complaint and pointing out the governor’s ethical–and legal–lapses, Blunt’s spokeshole is clamming up.  Jessica Robinson refused to comment on Garner’s responses to the Office of Disciplinary Counsel, claiming it would be “inappropriate” to comment on an ongoing ethics investigation.

Doesn’t it all remind you of the way Bush/Cheney put out their lies about Joe Wilson and his wife Valerie Plame, and then when Scooter Libby got caught lying about their original lies, Bush and his press spokeshole, Scott McClellan, kept saying that they couldn’t comment on an ongoing investigation/court case.

Once again, Blunt is following in the steps of his role model.